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Good, Free Information Security Materials from the USPS

Bob Johnston provided a great pointer on the CISSPforum maillist for good, free information security resources from the United States Postal Service; 7 free fraud and information secuity awareness DVDs.  Thank you for the heads-up, Bob!

The free awareness DVDs include:

  1. All the King's Men: Picking Up the Pieces. This DVD is about fraud schemes and how to avoid becoming a victim, and how to recover from fraud.
  2. Nowhere to Run: Cross-Border Fraud. This film illustrates how U.S. Postal Inspectors created task forces with Canadian law enforcement partners to stop "long distance" scams through long distance calls and the Internet.
  3. Web of Deceit: Internet Fraud. This DVD tells the story of a scammer who uses the Internet to victimize unsuspecting consumers around the world until he gets caught in his own web of deceit.
  4. Long Shot: Foreign Lottery Scams. This free DVD tells the story of a foreign lottery fraud victim and the con artist behind the scam.
  5. Work-at-Home Scams: They Just Don't Pay.  This film tells the story of a new type of work-at-home scam and how a mother gets caught up in it.
  6. Identity Crisis: Protect Your Identity. This DVD tells the story of a couple whose credit is ruined and of the criminals who defrauded them.
  7. Delivering Justice: Dialing for Dollars. This DVD tells the story of such a phone investment "opportunity " scam and the lives that are ruined by these criminals.

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Thanks for the pointers. The stuff is free except for shipping and handling and having to create yet another account to worry about. Everybody wants your info...

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.